There is no news of moment from any of the fronts, but that is largely because the position on most of them protends big events. The Allies everywhere are favourably placed for a combined effort, and it may come now, despite General Von Hindenberg's promise to the Kaiser of a great victory. On the Somme to British hold firmly all the positions gained by the hard fighting of last week. ...
Article : 644 wordsA wireless message received at Berne states that the Russian forces form a half-circle around Halicz, which they continue to bombard. The capture of ...
Article : 102 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at the headquarters of the Roumanian army, says in a despatch:—The advance in the Carpathians is most ...
Article : 66 wordsReferring to-day to the embargo placed on the landing of women in Egypt, the Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) stated that he had received ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that M. Ribot, the French Minister of Finance, will present his Budget on Tuesday, and ...
Article : 284 wordsMr. Robert Marshall, manager of Kentdale estate, Macquarie Plains, has received official notification that his son, Sergeant John Marshall was killed in ...
Article : 598 wordsTo-day's Russian communique states: Seven German aeroplanes yesterday flew over the Kovel-Rovische railway. Captain Kazakco successfully ...
Article : 153 wordsThe inhabitants of 14 counties in Hungary have fled to Budapest, where the situation is serious owing to the shortage of food supplies. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 424 wordsThe Germans, in their communique, state that they have come into touch with the Roumanians southward of Dorna Vatra, in Bukowina, near the ...
Article : 36 wordsIn a despatch from the headquarters of the Roumanian army, a "Times" correspondent writes:—The fire of the Danube fleet aided the resistance of the ...
Article : 85 wordsA romantic discovery has been revealed in the case of a Russian soldier wounded in a battle in Volhynia, and who is now in the Klarkoff hospital. ...
Article : 109 wordsA wireless message received in Berne (Switzerland) states that the adjournment of the Hungarian Parliament until the 28th inst., when the German ...
Article : 87 wordsThe German communique states:— Silistria (a fortified town 62 miles southeast of Bucharest) has fallen, after a sanguinary battle. The Roumanian ...
Article : 104 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig, in his report this morning, states:— We retain all the ground we gained yesterday (Saturday), and further ...
Article : 339 wordsA Presbyterian missionary in Northern Arabia, in a despatch forwarded to New York, describes the awful sufferings of the Armenians in the province of ...
Article : 158 wordsAt a meeting of South Wales railwayman, which was held yesterday at Cardiff, it was unanimously decided that unless the demand for an increase of ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, has made a tour of inspection in the Somme region. While there he closely inquired as to the supplies of ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Russians have stopped Count Czernier, the Austrian Ambassador at Bucharest, and 100 other Austrians homeward bound, to prevent them from ...
Article : 45 wordsTo-night's report by General Haig states:— We entered the trenches at Neuve Chapelle to-day, and inflicted severe ...
Article : 36 wordsCorporal Gill, W. A., Launceston. ...
Article : 6 wordsThe Official Press Bureau in London states that the German casualties officially reported for August totalled 240,957, including 42,732 killed and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 280 wordsIt is reported at Copenhagen that a large airship wharf near Frankfort-on-the Main caught on fire, and was burned down yesterday, and that four ...
Article : 50 wordsTo-day's French communique refers to the Salonika operations as follows:— The Bulgarians to the eastward of Vetrenik have evacuated many ...
Article : 58 wordsThis morning's French communique states:— In a brilliant action eastward of Fleury last night our curtain of fire ...
Article : 81 wordsMrs. Pankburst, the militant suffragist, who has returned to England from America, addressed a meeting of women in Hyde-park to-day. The meeting ...
Article : 100 wordsThis morning's French communique is as follows:— The Germans made many strong attacks last night at various points ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 51 wordsThe following, the 209th and 210th, casualty lists were released yesterday. The names, unless it is otherwise stated, are those of privates. The addresses ...
Article : 43 wordsThe religious ceremony of blessing the air was carried out for the first time to-day at Le Platin, on the French Atlantic Coast. The idea, of placing ...
Article : 90 wordsTo-day's French communique says:— The Germans essayed coups do main to-day at Les Eparges (southeast of Verdun), and in the Forest of ...
Article : 41 wordsA message received in New York from Vienna states that Baron Burian, the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister, admits that Austria would hail ...
Article : 214 wordsYesterday armed men entered the courtyard of the French Legation at Athens whilst the Ministers of the Allied Powers were having a ...
Article : 120 wordsIt is officially announced that yesterday (Saturday) afternoon British naval aeroplanes dropped bombs on the railway siding and ammunition depot at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 407 wordsMr. Alfred Noyes, the well-known author, describes to-day a recent visit he made to the battleships engaged in the Jutland encounter. He says:— ...
Article : 335 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the war correspondent, writes:—The charge of the Irish troops through Guillemont on Sunday, September 3, was one of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 31 wordsTo-day's Italian communique refers as follows to the movements of the Italian expeditionary force which recently landed in Albania:— ...
Article : 61 wordsTo-day's German communique is as follows:—After the pause on Friday, the fighting in the battle of the Somme is pursuing its course. Yesterday the ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Italian communique issued to-day states:— The Austrians, after hand-grenade preparation in the Dolje-Tolino ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Minister of Defence Senator Pearce) has received a cable message from the Commandant, A.I.F., Headquarters London, to the effect that ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 12 Sep 1916, Page 5
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